Meeting Clinician Point-of-Care Information Needs with Infobutton Tools

Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, MS, medical informaticist, Intermountain Health Care, and Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Saverio Maviglia, MD, hospitalist and informaticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners HealthCare, Boston, present two case studies entailing the positive results of integrating infobutton tools with HIS systems to encourage enterprise-wide use of evidence-based knowledge at the point of care. Dr. Del Fiol recaps five years of infobutton advances at Intermountain including software architecture enhancements such as the HL7 standard under development and infobutton use data. Dr. Maviglia describes how infobutton technology helps clinicians achieve better care and outcomes for patients.